Memory Erased
I’ve had ECT (shock treatment) and it basically saved my life, but it also erased most of my memory from birth until 24 years old, when I had the ECT.
Because of my medications that I’m on for my schizoaffective disorder, though, I have INCREDIBLY vivid dreams that I often can’t differentiate from reality.
That said, I remember VIVIDLY, from back in my old BBS (Bulletin Board System, basically a message board, games platform, and IRC, but from before the internet was a big thing) SysOp days,
that I drove out to meet up with a friend that I knew through my BBS, and we both went out to meet up with the SysOp of a similar BBS in the same town.
His girlfriend was the daughter of a politician, so we drove up to her house and hung out there for a few hours, then I drove back home after dropping off my friend. Her house was MASSIVE, there was a giant pool, white marble inside, a gigantic television, I remember she had a Gibson SG in dark red…
And I remember this vividly. I kinda fell off the face of the earth socially for a few years before and after the ECT, and I found the other SysOp on facebook a few years back (he has a VERY unique last name, so it wasn’t hard once it came back to me) and I asked him if this really happened.
He never replied. I’ve NEVER gotten closure.
Story credit: Reddit / bigangry